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FREEBIE: Tons of Free Things To Do From Home

By Catherine Mcdiarmid-Watt @frugalfreebies
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13 Museums You Can Visit Online During Your Quarantine
-- If you're stuck at home, why not get some culture?
• The Guggenheim, New York City
• The Musée D'Orsay, Paris
• The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
• The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
• The Uffizi Gallery, Florence
• The Boboli Gardens, Florence
• Machu Picchu, Cusco, Peru
• The Museu de Arte de São Paulo
• The Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City
• The Art Institute of Chicago
• The Palace of Versailles, France
• The Tokyo National Museum
• The National Palace of Sintra, Portugal
Read more: 13 Museums You Can Visit Online During Your Quarantine
Your Kids Can Now Watch Astronauts Reading Stories From Space
-- If you need to mix up your bedtime story routine a little bit, the Global Space Education Foundation has just the thing for you: Story Time in Space. It is exactly what it sounds like — astronauts on various missions in space read popular children's books while floating about, and the videos are edited and shared with kids way down on Earth.
Read more: Your Kids Can Now Watch Astronauts Reading Stories From Space
20 Virtual Field Trips to Take with Your Kids
-- Virtual field trips are a great way to expose kids to new places all from the comfort of home. In this age of technology, so many museums, zoos, and aquariums have set up virtual tours and webcams of their facilities. Now more than ever it is easier to visit destinations around the world from the comfort of your couch.
Read more: 20 Virtual Field Trips to Take with Your Kids
30 Virtual Field Trips
-- Over 30 Virtual Field Trips with Links
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Here's The Entire List of Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions Due to School Closings
-- With schools closing across the nation, parents and educators are in a bit of a panic as they try to figure out how kids can learn and obtain their education from home.
Read more: Entire List of Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions
Scholastic Learn At Home
-- Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
Read more: Scholastic Learn At Home
Here are 450 Ivy League courses you can take online right now for free
-- The 8 Ivy League schools are among the most prestigious colleges in the world. They include Brown, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, and Columbia universities, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Read more: 450 Ivy League courses you can take online for free
Borrow ebooks or audiobooks from the library using the Libby app
-- Did you know your local library has thousands of ebooks and audiobooks? You can borrow them, instantly, for free, using just the device in your hand.
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Work on learning a new language for Free
-- Duolingo is a good place to start. Learn a language for free. Forever
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Free movies and documentaries on the National Film Board website
-- Films, Documentary, Animation, Interactive, Education
Read more: Free movies and documentaries on the National Film Board website
Free Daily Art and Craft Tutorial
-- Our focus is elementary-aged children, but because art is about the process preschoolers and even older kids will enjoy this as well.
Read more: Free Daily Art and Craft Tutorial
The Met Opera Streaming Free Operas Online
-- According to Opera Wire, in an effort to continue providing opera to its audience members, the Met Opera will host 'Nightly Met Opera Streams' on its official website to audiences worldwide.
Read more: The Met Opera Streaming Free Operas Online
Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain
-- The launch of a new open-access platform usher in a new era of accessibility for the Institution
Read more: Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain
Celebrities reading children's books aloud!
-- Streaming videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more. Available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers, and educators worldwide. Each video includes an activity guide with lessons for K-5 students to do at home.
Read more: Celebrities reading children's books aloud!
NASA makes their entire media library publicly accessible and copyright free
-- Their entire collection of 140,000 images, sounds, and videos are available and publicly searchable online. Type in the term you want to search for and browse through the database of stunning images of outer space.
Read more: NASA makes their entire media library publicly accessible and copyright free
FREE eBOOKS From the New York Public Library
-- The New York Public Library released an app (SimplyE) today allowing anyone with a library card (and smartphone) to borrow any of the 300,000 e-books in the collection - allowing you to read books on your phone. The online collection will continue to grow, and there are Kindle and web browser versions in development.
Read more: FREE eBOOKS From the New York Public Library
FREE STICKERS! How many badges could you earn?
-- If you have a printer and some self-adhesive paper, these Covid-19 stickers, by Gemma Correll, would be fun to make. If you don't have self-adhesive paper, regular paper, and a safety pin work too! Sarah suggested: I've printed these out and I’m sending them in ‘happy mail’ as a surprise to my colleagues as a way to stay connected and have fun while we are apart.
Read more: Free Covid-19 Stickers
FREE Coloring Books from 113 Museums
-- Museums and libraries worldwide took part in a campaign where they provided free coloring books, letting you color artwork from their collections and share it on social media platforms...
Read more: FREE Coloring Books from 113 Museums
FREEBIE FUN: DIY CARDBOARD DINOSAUR HEAD
-- My kids loved making things out of cardboard - one time my son made a batmobile! If your kids love making things, check out this site!
Read more: FREEBIE FUN: DIY CARDBOARD DINOSAUR HEAD
FRUGAL TIP: Cardboard Slide
-- If you happen to have a couple of large appliance boxes, just open the tops and bottoms of the boxes and tape and lay the boxes end to end down the stairs to make a toy car run - or if you are brave - a slide!
Read more: FRUGAL TIP: Cardboard Slide
FREEBIE: 1001+ Dot-to-Dot - Online and Printables
-- Thousands of dot to dot online and printables for all ages, ranging from very easy up to extremely hard...
Read more: FREEBIE: 1001+ Dot-to-Dot - Online and Printables
FREE eBOOKS: Tons of Free eBooks To Grab Index
-- Lots of free ebooks to choose from!
📗 Tons of Free eBooks for Children (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Fiction Classics eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Cookbooks eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Craft eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Fantasy eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Historical Fiction eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Horror eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Humor eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Mystery eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Religious/Inspirational Fiction eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Romance eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Science Fiction eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Suspense/Thrillers eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free eBooks for Teens/Young Adults (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Valentine eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free Western eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
📗 Tons of Free eBooks To Grab! (US/CDN/UK)
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